Here is an article I’ve written on an aspect of Havel’s work.
As an advisor to Ambassador Edward Rowny, I helped present Havel, then a persecuted «dissident» but only a little more than a year from becoming President of the Republic, his first briefing on US defense policies and postures. This was in a breakfast meeting arranged under conditions of great secrecy, at the home of the US Deputy Chief of Mission in Prague, in September 1988. In addition to Havel, participants in the conversation included Jiri Dienstbier, Rita Klimova, Martin Palous, and Vaclav Maly, the latter now auxiliary bishop of Prague. A month after we met him, Havel was jailed again by the Communist regime. He was jailed again in 1989 before becoming President of the Republic.
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Joe
Havel’s ‘Respect for Mystery’ versus the Techno-Gnostics
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/12/20/havels-respect-for-mystery-ver
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